He thinks the MCU has supplanted them.
He is, unfortunately, correct about that in many respects. For example, Marvel retconned Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch's origins so that they were no longer Magneto's children because of Perlmutter's pissing match with Fox. With how many properties/charaters we are watching get the MCU treatment (Ms. Marvel, Ironheart, America Chavez) I get the seeing that the comics division's sole reason for existence is to support the films rather than the other way around.
10) what do you even mean by that?
Methinks Bob wants a single-payer system similar Canada's or the UK's NHS. What Bob fails to realize is that the provinces are the ones who provide the healthcare services in regards to the former, which comes with its own disadvantages. There are Canadians that actually go to the United States and pay out of pocket to see a specialist or receive services because the wait times are too long.
As I said, I believe climate change does exist and I believe it is a crisis, but we have to solve this crisis as a planet and unless China and India cut down on emissions along with the West, any climate agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on.
It comes to, "Do you have any better suggestions?" for me because many of the eco-zealots are like Bob in that they believe that technology will magically come up with solutions. Wind and solar are, in theory, inexhaustible because the wind is always blowing and the sun always shining when there isn't a cloud blocking it. However, they are intermittent and unreliable so you would be dealing with brownouts and blackouts we replace fossil fuels with them. Most of these eco-zealots are likewise opposed to nuclear power. Not without cause as the waste products have a half-life of centuries, but there are theoretical technologies like thorium reactors and ITER is working on a way to make fusion viable. Then there is the fact that trucks, trains, planes and ships--critical parts of our infrastructure--that rely on fossil fuels to operate. Colour me skeptical, but I have my doubts that it will be that simple to convert many of those to electric.
Oh yeah, and we actually have to MINE the lithium and other elements needed to manufacture those batteries. Mining was a very environmentally unfriendly activity the last I checks, but many Western environmentalists are NIMBYists who don't care what happens in some third world shithole with lax regulations.
The case with Canada, we care a small country who does not even produce 2% of the world's CO2 emissions yet our government is insistent on destroying our petroleum industry and replacing it with untested "green" infrastructure. The Liberal Party of Canada, led by Justin Trudeau, are a bunch of virtue signaling attention whores who more receiving praise from the global community than they are about helping anyone outside of the GTA/Montreal/Vancouver. Hell, I see the majority of Canadians as delusional egotists who believe that the rest of the world wants to be like us and will follow our example. Newsflash! China is hold two our citizens hostage because we are honoring our treaty obligations to the United States and Justin's little India trip in 2018 humiliated the country and did nothing to endear us to them. I doubt India is going to look at LPC policy and say, "Yeah, we should do that!"
What Bob fails to understand time and time again is that technology is not some magical god that will bestow miracles because some DNC functionaries demand it. Hell, didn't that venerable "conservative" institution we know as UCLA recently tell us that FDR's New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression by seven years? Given that we are now in a recession, it sounds like the "Green" New Deal will plunge the country and the world into a Second Great Depression and we know that will do wonders for America in its hyper-polarized state.
Fuck, Bob is stupid.
